To take you into the weekend, meet the ambient tunes of Osaka’s Baby Loop Code. There isn’t much out there about this group, but the few songs available at MySpace are floating little gems. Save for a minor explosion of violins on “I’ll,” Baby Loop Code opts for more peaceful sonic vistas. Standout “Ecrosion” teases…
Nice article from Japanzine about the history of Japanese techno…kinda. It’s actually more of a history of Japanese electronic artists, as a few of the artists in this piece aren’t traditionally techno. Like, Perfume and 80kidz have techno influences, but they are pop and electro-dance acts respectively at the end of the day. Still, a…
One of the founding members of electro-dance trio 80kidz has decided to leave the group at the end of 2009. A letter posted on the group’s official site reveals that Mayu will call it a day at the end of the year. “It is the hardest decision I have ever made” she says in the…
Ahh, the lights are up, the trees are out and rapid material consumption is in the air. You know what that means…time for big celebrity-group songs. A group apparently dubbed the “anime all-star singers” have released a cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” It’s for a good cause (though I don’t know what said cause is)…
Talk about welcoming timing – I started my day reading this horribly bleak interview at Eye Weekly. It’s the type of article that makes a music writer depressed enough to wonder “what’s the point” as they stare blankly at their WordPress dashboard. Minutes later though, I clicked on a Pitchfork story about Pavement adding reunion…